OEIS sequence A-0-0-0-0-4-5.

The Fibonacci numbers.

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21. 34. 55. Today's guest is Neil Sloan. Niels had a long and distinguished

career in mathematics, the majority at the famed Bell Labs. But the thing he's probably best known

for is a collection of numbers that started as a side project,

but turned into the online encyclopedia of integer sequences, the O-E-I-S.

This incredible resource is so closely associated with Neil that many people refer to it simply as Sloan's.

Now here on Numberphile, we've made plenty of videos over the years that refer to Sloan's menagerie of sequences,

but in more recent times, we've been lucky enough to have Neil himself as a regular guest on the channel.

Between filming

sessions, we recorded this podcast among the countless papers, scrolls and numbery treasures

filed away in his New Jersey attic. So Neil, we're in your house and at the moment we're in, what do you call this room?

Is this like your study?

Yeah, it's my study.

But you seem to have multiple studies, though.

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